Magnopus founders Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning, and Rodrigo Teixeira have credits in some of the most effects-heavy film productions in the last decade, including the Oscar-winning Hugo, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Amazing Spiderman, Alice in Wonderland, and The Jungle Book. For well over a decade, the ultra-talented team at Magnopus has been bending creative technology to their wills to create impressive visual feasts.
“We started Magnopus because films were hitting a ceiling and we were running out of impossible spectacles to wow people with. We saw directors struggling to engage audiences, and audiences looking for more than a theater or TV could provide,” said Ben Grossmann, CEO. “We knew we needed to put audiences inside those experiences, but that we’d never be able to do it within the existing system, so we left to start fresh. Now we’re building experiences and technology that allow people to become an active part of the story, whether it’s a mixture of the physical and digital worlds or a completely imagined world.”
They delivered some of 2017’s most impressive VR experiences in Mission:ISS and the Emmy-nominated Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab, gaining valuable expertise in the process. “Developing for VR is fundamentally different from creating VFX for traditional films or video games,” explained Lap Luu, CTO. “Making amazing VR content is not the same as making films, TV or games. It’s like all three at the same time.”